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I would like to know: is there something like pyparsing (a recursive descent parser) for PHP?
I already looked for it, but it seems no one did it yet. I hope I am wrong.
Thank you in advance.
I don’t know any maintained parser generators written in PHP. But there are parser generators written in other languages with PHP as a target language. One I have personally used is kmyacc. There is a PHP and Windows compatible fork of it. The grammar for it is written in yacc format and can be compiled to PHP using this command:
Kmyacc already comes with a procedural parser prototype file for PHP, but I personally use a modified version of an OOP based prototype.
As an example: This grammar get’s compiled into this parser. (Note that the grammar is huge, that’s why the generated parser has two and a half thousand lines. A “normal” grammar would obviously be far smaller.)